Squeezing a telescope with a mirror wider than a school bus and a sunshield the size of a tennis court into a rocket nose ...

The future of space flight may be founded on the traditions of art. Using the techniques of origami, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is examining how to use the craft of paper-folding to compact ...

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An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel is packing as much equipment as possible into a single rocket to reduce launch costs and make space exploration more ...

Most solar panels aren’t much to look at. They’re flat and functional, not the sort of thing you would display in an art gallery. A prototype for a solar array developed by NASA is more like a solar ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are looking to the ancient art of origami to design a folding shade that would block starlight so space telescopes can focus on distant worlds. The ...

Robert Lang combines mathematics, science and origami to create art and solve complex engineering problems.

The great explorers Lewis and Clark knew the importance of team expeditions. Now, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are developing a small scout robot called the ...